Web series LOL gets reviewed

My web series LOL just got reviewed over by Liz Shannon Miller at newteevee.com – a web series news site.

 

“There are very few laughs in LOL, an independently produced web series from Manchester, England. Instead, creator Ric Forster’s teen drama series (currently on episode 17 out of 20) invokes the web slang ironically, the way you might try to defuse a sarcastic comment or cutting insult. Of course, when you’re a teenager juggling school, family, partying and your best friend’s boyfriend, nothing is a joke — life is quite serious.

 

The strong northern English accents give the series a sense of place, but they don’t interfere with a pretty universal tale of teens behaving badly. While warnings persist for strong language and adult themes, the plot is fairly conventional. But the story of Keely (Nicola Mahoney), a good girl who’s essentially taunted into going bad, finds a dark edge in the narrative’s fractured timeline, which flashes forward six months into the future, where the consequences of Keely’s ongoing downward spiral are much more evident. The pacing could be a little tighter, especially as the flashforwards reveal just how screwed up life for Keely and her friends has gotten, and characters could be explored more deeply. But on an episode-by-episode level, the drama is believable, well-acted and compelling.”

 

Read more over at http://station.newteevee.com/show/lolseries/